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frivolity

/fri-vol-i-tee/US // frɪˈvɒl ɪ ti //

浮躁,轻浮,浮气,轻浮性

Related Words

levity轻视,轻率,轻视性,轻率性whimsy奇思妙想,异想天开,奇想,奇思异想gaiety欢乐,欢乐的气氛,欢快,欢愉jest趣事,趣话,趣闻,趣谈sport体育,运动,体育运动,体育项目frippery花花公子,花巧,花边新闻,花边triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事lightheartedness轻松愉快的心情,轻松愉快,淡然,轻松愉快的气氛trifling琐碎的,琐碎,琐碎的事,琐事play播放,游戏,玩,玩耍giddiness眩晕,晕眩,眩晕感,眩晕症flirting调情,打情骂俏,调情的,调情的人nonsense无稽之谈,胡说八道,胡扯game游戏,游戏中,游戏中的lightness轻盈,轻度,轻巧,亮度volatility挥发性,波动性,波动,挥发folly愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的,愚弄fun乐趣,有趣的,娱乐,趣味flightiness飞行能力,飞行性,飞行,飞扬跋扈flippancy浮躁,浮夸,轻浮,浮夸风

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fri·vol·i·ties for 2.

    • : the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
    • : a frivolous act or thing: It was a frivolity he had a hard time living down.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsilliness, childishness
Forms: frivolities
Synonyms
levity轻视,轻率,轻视性,轻率性flightiness飞行能力,飞行性,飞行,飞扬跋扈flippancy浮躁,浮夸,轻浮,浮夸风flirting调情,打情骂俏,调情的,调情的人flummery楞严寺,楞严会,楞严,楞严寺庙folly愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的,愚弄frippery花花公子,花巧,花边新闻,花边frivolousness轻浮,轻浮性,薄情寡义,浮躁fun乐趣,有趣的,娱乐,趣味gaiety欢乐,欢乐的气氛,欢快,欢愉game游戏,游戏中,游戏中的giddiness眩晕,晕眩,眩晕感,眩晕症jest趣事,趣话,趣闻,趣谈lightheartedness轻松愉快的心情,轻松愉快,淡然,轻松愉快的气氛lightness轻盈,轻度,轻巧,亮度nonsense无稽之谈,胡说八道,胡扯play播放,游戏,玩,玩耍puerility小儿科,小产,小儿园,小儿麻痹症shallowness浅薄,浅薄性,浅层次,浅尝辄止sport体育,运动,体育运动,体育项目superficiality肤浅,肤浅性,表面化,浮浅toying玩弄,玩耍,玩乐,玩具trifling琐碎的,琐碎,琐碎的事,琐事triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事volatility挥发性,波动性,波动,挥发whimsicality异想天开,奇思妙想,异彩纷呈,异国情调whimsy奇思妙想,异想天开,奇想,奇思异想coquetting争吵,镶边,争吵声,槌击dallying颟顸无知,颟顸的,颟顸,颟顸无能fribble摇摆不定,摇摆不定的,摇摆不定的人,摇摆舞

Examples

  • Unproductive frivolity—joy, pleasure—might need no evolutionary explanation.

  • It’s not insignificant that “The Bold Type” took seriously the fantasies of teenage girls and young women, groups historically derided for the supposed frivolity of their wants.

  • This is not lost on their commander, Rama (Shani Klein), an aspiring military careerist who looks down on frivolity in wartime.

  • When Ben Stiller showed up in full blue Navi makeup in 2010 to mock Avatar, the winking frivolity of it all was hysterical.

  • No putdowns, no jokes, no frivolity whatever—he was most solemn and his eyes focused somewhere far beyond the back of my head.

  • Brown Dog has a code of ethics that separates him from the convention of his culture, and the partisan frivolity of politics.

  • States should rarely amend their constitutions, and such frivolity is certainly not worthy, especially from conservatives.

  • All this I admit to be the fever of the mind—a waking dream—an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.

  • Disgusted with the frivolity of the living, she sought solace for her wounded feelings in companionship with the illustrious dead.

  • Frivolity enveloped the company as with a silken veil, and yet everything moved as politely and as sedately as a minuet.

  • I am a parent, so I instructed my wife to write a letter saying how much I was pained by William's frivolity.

  • Hence he gives the impression of insincerity, of trifling with grave subjects and of using mysticism as a mask for frivolity.

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